Despite years of research into artificial intelligence, yet we have not been able to write programs that match the level of a three year old child at recognizing objects, understanding sentences, or drawing the simplest conclusions about ordinary life.
The real problem is that computers do not know anything about us! Our machines lack common sense -- all that ordinary knowledge that people in our society share, things we understand so well we hardly even realize we know them.
To give computers common sense we must program them with knowledge about many different areas: physical knowledge of how objects behave, social knowledge of how people interact, sensory knowledge of how things look and taste, psychological knowledge about the way people think, and more. Furthermore, each of these different facets of life requires its own specialized methods of reasoning about them.
OpenMind Commonsense is an attempt to make computers smarter by making it easy and fun for people all over the world to work together to give computers the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that constitute "common-sense"
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